KonaWare Closes New Financing Adding New Investors From Arkansas

KonaWare, the leading provider of mobile software application development for enterprises, announces the closing of the company’s Series C-1 financing. New investors include Garrison Financial, Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA), and the Commerce Capital Development Company (CCDC). These funding entities are located in the State of Arkansas where KonaWare has established offices in Harrison and Fayetteville. Most notably, ASTA and CCDC are State sponsored entities designed to help technology firms like KonaWare grow their businesses in Arkansas.

Returning investors include Asset Management, NTT Leasing, Draper Richards and Draper Associates, TJB Ventures, Western Technology Investment, and Nomad Ventures.Click here to read the full story...


 

KonaWare Transport reduces costs at Dohrn Transfer's P & D operations. Dohrn Transfer, headquartered in Rock Island, Illinois, provides LTL service throughout the Midwest. After completing a pilot program with KonaWare, a full production project to automate Dohrn's pickup and delivery operations has begun. By equipping Dohrn drivers with KonaWare Transport running on mobile phones, pickup and delivery information will be collected by drivers in route, then transmitted over standard cellular networks to the company's back office systems. With this replacement to Dohrn's paper-based and voice communication driven system, Dohrn will experience both substantial reduction of administration and dispatcher overhead and an increase in revenue by adding more pickup and deliveries per vehicle per day. To learn more about Dohrn Transfer visit the company website.


 

Prolificx + KonaWare = the benefits of both a fixed mounted and handheld solution for HOS Driver Log and Vehicle Inspection reporting. The Prolificx Vector 300FM combined with KonaWare Transport E-Log provides a complete Hours of Service Electronic Driver Log and Vehicle Inspection solution that tracks a vehicle’s odometer reading, road speed, power takeoff status, total vehicle distance, and GPS coordinates, as well as hours of driver duty. The Vector 300FM communicates via bluetooth to a wireless computer running KonaWare Transport E-Log. This allows automatic driver log entry of the operator’s present location, date, time, vehicle odometer reading and driver status such as “On/Off-Duty” or “Driving”. By capturing this important vehicle data, this solution provides the benefits of an in-cab, fixed mounted driver log solution while giving the operator the mobility of a handheld computer. This is needed for the included Vehicle Inspection Reporting application, another FMCSA requirement. The driver has the freedom to document his pre/post trip inspection outside of the vehicle and record any needed repairs. For more information about Prolificx visit the company website. Also check out KonaWare’s 30-day Pilot offer of KonaWare Transport E-Log, a complete Hours of Service Driver Log and Vehicle Inspection Solution.


 

KonaWare's Council of Industry Advisors now up to five members, adding Greg Doyle, VP of Field Operations at Navis, and Edward G. Feitzinger, SVP of Golden Gate Logistics. The KonaWare Advisory Council members are a trusted source of information and market access helping KonaWare to become the leading provider of supply chain execution solutions for the transportation and logistics industry. The newest members to the council bring a vast range of expertise and experience:

Greg Doyle, currently Vice President of Field Operations at Navis, brings over 25 years of experience in enterprise software sales and executive management to the council. Prior to joining Navis, Mr. Doyle held senior executive positions at Fasturn, CAS Americas, Manugistics (NYSE: MANU), and Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (NYSE: DNB).

Edward G. Feitzinger, currently Senior Vice President of Golden Gate Logistics, brings a wealth of knowledge in supply chain, information technology, and logistics to the council. Mr. Feitzinger was previously vice president of Worldwide Logistics for Hewlett-Packard. He was responsible for the global logistics strategy and execution for Hewlett-Packard (HP). Prior to HP, Mr. Feitzinger served Menlo Worldwide, a $3B global logistics provider in many roles including senior vice president of sales and marketing, senior vice president of technology and engineering, and vice president of Menlo Logistics’ 3pl technology and engineering arm before that.

To view a complete list of KonaWare's Council of Industry Advisors click here


 

SCM technology market expected to grow nearly 9% by 2010. A recent study from ARC Advisory Group suggests that the market for supply chain management (SCM) technology applications is projected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 8.6 percent over the next five years. read more...




The On-Demand Tipping Point in Supply Chain. On-demand software applications have made headlines in CRM and other enterprise application areas. But much less has been said regarding on-demand applications (also called Software as a Service [SaaS]) or externally hosted applications) in the supply chain realm. This is about to change. On-demand SCM is now being considered by more than 50% of companies of all sizes and maturity levels.

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